19th » Venice - Annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy - At Hotel Europa, Austria hands over Veneto to France, which hands it immediately over to Italy.
22nd » A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, occurred three days before, on October 19.
Famous Birthdays on October in 1866
6th » Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor, invented Radiotelephony (d. 1932)
7th » Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Polish-Austrian religious leader, 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942)
12th » Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1937)